Ambiguity About Whether Google Achieved True Recursive Self-Improvement

A social media discussion questions whether Google's recent AI announcement qualifies as genuine recursive self-improvement, where a system enhances the process that produces its own successors, rather than a looser use of the term. Commenters note that confirming this empirically would require training and comparing multiple successive model generations, which outside observers cannot easily do. The thread is a definitional debate rather than a concrete problem for builders or investors.